SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Museum to Get New Patio Restaurant From Gussie's Chicken & Waffles Chef Town Fare Cafe, the restaurant at the Oakland Museum of California, isn't exactly new. But it's been remade twice now under different chefs, and the latest iteration debuts today with a menu of Southern classics and new-school cocktails, and a brand new patio.
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Museum's Beloved White Elephant Sale Goes Online Starting Saturday Morning The Oakland Museum needs your money more than ever, and while last year's White Elephant sale managed to happen before the pandemic set it in, this year's will, for the very first time, be fully online.
Arts & Entertainment Dorothea Lange Exhibit at Oakland Museum To Feature Hundreds of Rarely Seen Photos Dorothea Lange documented American life through nuanced photographs that highlighted the major social issues of the 20th century. Next week, you can virtually scroll through hundreds of her works, courtesy of OMCA’s latest digital exhibit devoted to the world-renowned photographer.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Out Of The Box,' A Sneaker Exhibit At Oakland Museum Over at the Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit tracks the phenomenon of sneakers as fashion items and design objects. It's called Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture and
SF News Meanwhile, On Mayor Jean Quan's iPhone... She has a pink plastic iPhone case! How about that. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan snaps a shot a Gold Rush-era jewelry box after a news conference announcing its recovery at the Oakland Museum
Arts & Entertainment $12,000 Gold Rush Artifact Stolen From Oakland Museum In the second break-in in two months, a man stole a gold- and quartz-lined box from a display case in the Oakland Museum that is rumored to be worth $800,000. The box
SF News Oakland Museum of California Sets New Standard The Oakland Museum of California has been receiving lots of well-deserved critical praise (and endowment money [http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=44371]) since undergoing a major
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pixar's "Day and Night" Many of you have already gone to see Toy Story 3 have seen this short, but for the rest, we thought we'd share, since this weekend marks the opening of a new exhibit
misc SFist Style: The <em>Chron</em>'s 'Personal Style' Picks Are Hardly Hurting for Spending Cash The Chron kicked off a new feature this past Sunday called "Personal Style," and their inaugural picks for the column are two museum dudes who writer Franklin Melendez suggests are a "pair of
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Buy and Sell Looking to do some crafty shopping or feel like flogging your crafty creations? Here are a few ways to get your fix. Modern Times, one of our favorite independent bookstores in the city,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: The songbook of Fields of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To First Fridays After Five! This month's event, entitled "Chocolate Caliente!", features "hot salsa music, cool drinks, and gourmet chocolates. Warm up on the dance floor with Orquesta Universal, then travel through time on a gallery tour featuring
SF News Baseball as Oakland Starting this Saturday, the Oakland Museum of California is hosting an exhibition from the Baseball Hall of Fame, called Baseball As America, displaying the history of America's game. The show's been traveling across
